December 1999 - Sinister

Sinister: It'll be lonely this Christmas - especially in my house.
by David Watson 21 Dec '99

21 Dec '99

Liked the note from Jeanette saying that Sinister is a family, stumbling from one disaster to the next, and we rally round to help each other in times of need. In that case I'd be grateful if I could abuse the list for a second or two with my own personal tale of woe and a cry for help....... It's like this see.......my flat"mate" has just informed me that he plans to move out my house in the next two weeks. I have the mortgage and he gives me half every month as rent money. (He has just decided that all he has to give is a few seconds notice and that's him off!) This means that in the short term my Christmas is totally f***ed because all the money I had saved up for some festive drink/drug binges and extravagant gifts for those closest, now has to be used to pay the mortgage for January. So instead of partying like a madman into the new millennium, I will be at my parents' house watching shite like "Celine Dion at Glyndebourne opera house," and "Mission Impossible." (Also, because I'm at my parents' I won't be able to listen to any even slightly loud tunes because my Dad greets any song released after 1963 with the cry, "TURN THAT OASIS PISH AFF.") (Apart from "The Quo," obviously(?)) Anyway, I digress................ As for the next few months, my mortgage has now effectively doubled, which means that I need a new flat mate, so I can avoid having to live on a diet of Pot Noodles. If anyone out there in the Glasgow area is looking for a room to rent from January onwards (unlikely I know but "He who dares" and all that) then please get back to me (uncle.eddie(a)virgin.net) (phone:0141 579 8826). Or even if you know someone who's looking show them this message. I live in a really quiet street in King's Park and my rent is very reasonable. It's only 12 minutes on the train to the city centre and a further 3 mins walk from there to 13th Note. Sorry if this is what is known as List Abuse but I have to try don't I? I'd rather have someone off this list move in than some random Weedgie. Well thanks for listening and have a great Christmas and happy new year. When you're out having fun and quaffing Moet, think of me - stuck at home with Celine Dion on the telly and Status Quo on the stereo. Merry Christmas?!? Aye right - heard it..... David B and S content - Oh come on! No one does that these days. Do they? +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Dear Miss Honey:
by Alexander Borgia 21 Dec '99

21 Dec '99

On behalf of the Sini-Bear Adoption Agency, I am pleased..... http://www3.sympatico.ca/alexander.borgia/honey/honey.html Merry Chritstmas Honey, hope you're feeling better. Alexander (PS: the page will take a bit to load fully as it is graphics intensive) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Slow down, there's a bend in the road.
by Michael Jones 21 Dec '99

21 Dec '99

Are we still here ? Good, then let's do it... David Moore, Moore, Moore said, said, said: >Why no reports of last Friday's PoCaff shindig yet? Who won newly-turned >thirty-something Stevie Trousers' UniversiTwee Challenge? Take a bleedin' guess, mate. It was a fiasco wrapped up in a shambles inside a debacle. Here's the scenario - each team (except ONE) is issued with some kind of noise-making device for the purpose of shaking Trousse from his Paxmanic stupor and securing the right to answer just-issued question. Velocity Hopkins is placed *inches* away from the increasingly-haggard Pantaloonial face, with a sonic *cock* in his *mouth*. It's over before it starts. We may as well go home now, Clive. The Berry-Brooker-Williams-Gennet musical revue downstairs saves the evening with a jinglin' janglin' joyola. Old Harv even did the one about Noel Edmonds, disregarding all legal advice. May I be vexingly self-referential for a millisecond ? Thank you. Something scrawled in silver ink in the top right-hand corner of the fifth page of a loose-leaf pad left in the back of a cab in Naples informs me that this post brings up my Sinister Half-Century. 23 months at the crease: no Beefy slugfest this, more a solid, considered knock worthy, perhaps, of Chris 'Time Has Stopped' Tavare. Tedious, often dull, with few risks taken and scant regard given to the needs of the team. You'll all thank me for it when bad light stops play and we discover we've escaped with a credible draw. Thing is, I ain't going into no pavilion just yet, er, *mofo*. There's still grinding to be done. Wage a war of attrition against our corporate foe. I'm thinking Cliff Thorburn. I'm thinking Nigel Mansell. Drain the colour from their faces and sending them back from whence they came, to their flat-faced children and their birdseye-maple TV cabinets. And then set the wolves on them. Drop calling cards into the slots in their skulls: "I fucked with Sinister, so Sinister fucked with me". Ooh, I've gone all queer. Au revoir... StEAdymIkE. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Six Months On, The Winter's Gone...
by Robert Brennan 21 Dec '99

21 Dec '99

Or at least I hope it will be. Feels like it's going to be around forever right now. Hello! This is my first post and it's a bit ironic that I've gained my Sinister voice at the same time as I'm losing my real one *cough*. Here's hoping that we don't lose Sinister as well (and at this point I'll add my thank you to all the others for the work Mummy Honey's put in for us over the past few days). I've loved B&S since hearing them gently strum from my radio late at night during my drunken student days. Sadly, I've yet to see them live. The most B&S related thing I ever managed was to find myself at a Tigermilk relaunch night at Glasgow Art School last summer (July I think). I tagged along with a struggling band who hoped to be able to shove a demo into Stevie Jackson's waiting hands. Sadly, none of the band were present and to cap it all we won nothing in the raffle. That's all for now. I'll be back when something interesting happens to me. Or when somebody writes something suitably provocative. By the way, I'm Rob, I'm 24 and I'm trying to bring about the collapse of capitalism by working for a large multi-national company. Very Badly. Bye! ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: DundeeGlasgowEdinburgh.artschools
by Marianne Bratlie 21 Dec '99

21 Dec '99

..has she ever seen Dundee..? ..no, would be my reply, but still I have the feeling it`s a very nice place. So my question is, would it be silly putting Dundee as my sec. choice instead of Edinburgh (Machintosh schol=first choice) ? Anyone here going to the art schools in Glasgow, Edinburgh or Dundee -who could give me some words of experience? My mother wantŽs a painting of Isobel for christmas..he he, it`s true. ok..it`s not like it may sound like,..the painting is something I made last year, my mother is not a belle fan, but she still really likes the "expression in that womans face"...(Paul F. you know which one i`m talking about)..I still think it`s a funny thought. Not every house has Isobel on their livingroom wall. (well,we won`t either, cause I`m gonna give my mother the other p. she wished for. but it would be funny if we did.) ..anyway..it`s my birthday today, just thought I`d let you all know.. (all the other things just an excuse to mail the list to tell you this..he he..) take care, -Marianne ps I`m crossing my fingers for the list, also want to give my thanks and kisses to honey for being there doing his stuff for us. Tusen Takk!! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: rum rum rummm
by Colleen Laden 21 Dec '99

21 Dec '99

hi everybody! i am at work again at like 1:00 am for the 5th day in a row and i decided i am really bored so my co-worker and i hooked up his live camera at his desk so if you are awake and bored or even just awake and want to check it out i will be hopping and dancing around for a few minutes ... bores as hell...1 am ...at work...again..ciao! http://www.camarades.com/userpage.php3?resource=945608612&force_resolution=3 20_240 colleeeeeeen exhaustion and hysteria have set in... www.firetalk.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: the state i've been in...a nursery diary...
by Juan Moya 21 Dec '99

21 Dec '99

8/12/99 I closed the bookshop at eleven tonight, but I wasn't out of there until about 11:30 or so. David pulled alongside of me in a borrowed car and without argument I opened the door and got in. Ten minutes later we found ourselves sitting at the bar in John Martin's looking into our Guinness and wondering if all there was to our nights after work was Guinness. I guess I shouldn't complain at least the bars here stay open late. We got into the car after two pints and from my jacket pocket I produced a cassette of TBWTAS. "She had a stroke at the age of..." I was singing along, watching the passing cars and the dimly lit shop windows along Ponce de Leon Ave. when Dave says, "Uh, J.C. I don't know if I'm in the mood for this..." I forced him to listen to the rest of the song, but alas, he forced it out of the tape deck. Since Dave is usually keen on B&S, I have to wonder if he's feeling all right tonight. A few taco's later, another conversation about the girls that we never come across and everything is fine again. I'll probably be awake all night again, so I'll stay awake with sinister. 10/12/99 Late August. My last night in London. Salako at the Borderline. Canceled. A couple of nights before that, I went to see Marine Research, (incidentally, on Martin Robinson's recommendation), and got there in time to watch the band unplug their instruments. Today, I finally found the domestic release of "Musicality." I can't really afford it, but I bought it anyway. (after four months or so of regretting the fact that I left for home without it, I just couldn't say no) Supposed to go out with some co-workers tonight. I think I'd rather stay home and listen to the record. But alas, to flip them off so casually would be to sully inter-bookseller relations. Fuck it. I'm staying home. 12/12 Last night at the Absinthe House Cinema, just a few blocks down from the bookshop, they was a Smiths tribute show. Ten or so local S. Florida bands showing off their capacity for sensitivity and morrisey imitations. all around not a bad night. Most intense band was Ed Matus' Struggle, most out of place band was The Goods. It had been a long day and I started nodding off during the last two acts. Drove home, alone. Went to bed, alone. Even so, I couldn't fall asleep right off, so I listened to "Dog on Wheels." Then, I had the most remarkable dreams... Lately, they seem to pick up where reality stops. An event sometime in the day that perhaps didn't conclude the way I would have liked it to, turns into fantasy central at night. For example, on Friday afternoon, I only eyed that jet glow rickenbacker at the guitar shop. On Friday late at night, deep in sleep, I was plugging the guitar into my amp in my apt. playing "lazy line painter jane," or something around those lines. I could go into the sex dreams, but alas, I'm gonna be in the nursery another week and don't want to offer too much. (although, i fear i may already have.) 13/12/99 Lucy Alder's post today made my night. After a rocky Sunday and a long ass day at work today, the sure fire rapid action motion of her "digits" made my day. Last night I helped my parents put up their x-mas tree and I did so to TBWTAS. My dad seems to like B&S a lot better than Mark Eitzel. Since I have a fondness for the both of them and can compromise when given a choice between two greats, the entire family went with B&S. They didn't even notice some of the lyrics, but I guess that in such a way any sort of discussion about the music was avoided. To my dad, if it doesn't have congas, it just ain't right. Hasta manana, amigos. 12/14/99 Shouldn't have driven home. Had a chance encounter with my-older-ex-girlfriend. I'm wondering if anything matters other than soul music. Because, "La la la la la la la la la, means I love you." Don't really feel like doing anything these days. College is a distant memory and it's going to be harder to go back and finish than it was to start it... duh.... 12/17 taking a short break from cleaning my apartment. i'm feeling a little uncertain about what's going on with the list right now. i wonder if i'll ever get out of the nursery. that's a selfish thought, though. these ten days or so have been loads of fun... coming home late at night, reading the posts, feeling like i'm getting to know everyone a bit. still, i feel like a voyeur. none of you know i'm here. nice to have the nursery, but i feel left out. i don't know what it's like in other parts of the world, but the holiday season at the bookstore is murder. it basically kills every felling of good tidings and cheer that one may have possessed in their youth. the only thing that gets me by is to sing to myself the first ten words of "TBWTAS." when things get really bad, i just say "boo to the business world." 12/20 this is already a long post, so i won't add to it. let's just say that i'm finally out of the nursery and for once in my life, i've got nothing to say. cheers, j.c. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: ho ho ho !!!
by GoGoEcho＠aol.com 21 Dec '99

21 Dec '99

Well, it's 7pm and my roomate just left for home and I'm all alone in my apartment with nothing to do. It's freaken freezing outside yet there is a huge line outside my window of people going to see the Smashing Pumkins play the metro. Which for you nonchicagoians is a place that only holds like a thousand people instead of 20 thousand like the band normally plays. I must say it's pretty interesting living here seeing all the goings on and all. But to get off that Leaky said, >Guy: Where've you been >Leaky(me): (Very drunk) Roper Hall....hic >Guy: blah blah blah >Leaky: Really, blah, blah, hic >Guy: Yes, blah, blah, blah, that's right >Leaky: Well I never >Guy: So, how big's your cock?!!!! Well that was a really one of the funniest and creepy things I've read in a while it gave me a good laugh thanks. No more to say but have a happy new year!!! adam +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Dont Fight Back Like Donovan in the movies
by BrnToEnd＠aol.com 20 Dec '99

20 Dec '99

Hello everyone, I'm finally truly happy about christmas vacation for today I had a lovely Sushi lunch today outside (How about this weather in Northern california?) and some yummy Green Tea ice cream and of course Miso soup. Then it was off to the record store where I searched around then got Live At Albert Hall-Spiritualized, From Her To Eternity-Nick Cave and Beethoven Was Deaf-Morrissey and talked to a nice chap who diged morrissey. Im listening to The Albert Hall Spritualized album now and its really good and Broken Heart Is making me depressed and wanting to jump off a bridge now. sniff sniff I need a tissue Boys Do Cry atleast whimps like me who fall for a good sentimental love song. Then I sat in a nice cafe with a 20 oz. cafe late that had 4 shots in it and Im not feeling crazy although Come Together is coming on soon and I'll probaly want to run around the house. Well off for some Tea and rent some flicks -Damon "I Dont Like People"-Bob Dylan +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Sinister's Most Wanted - The case of the missing honey.
by Alexander Borgia 20 Dec '99

20 Dec '99

Attention all sini-cops: We have been able to rule out Winnie the Pooh as a suspect in this case. His alibi is air tight, although we still think he is a shifty devil who is up to no good. I should probably apologize for my haste in sending out my rant this morning, I may not have made myself overly clear. The e-mail in question was indeed sent to honey(a)missprint.org. Judging by the return message, I believe Mummy's mail is auto forwarded through Esosoft. I guess until we hear back from Mummy, we should refrain from sending him any e-mail. I do know that he has inquired of quite a few places where he may be able to move the list and he may be awaiting e-mail replies from them. So if anyone has an alternate way of contacting our dearest Mummy, please do and inform him that his mail is possibly being returned to the sender. This next bit is a reply to Mr. Leak's post of this morning, however, please don't take it personally, I am offering an observation that was presented to me. "That's right, he cunningly crowbarred the last question into the conversation as if he were asking about the weather. I asked him to let me out! Phew, he could have been the new Dennis Neilsen in training. It sounds silly but I felt really angry and used but anyway, I'm over it now." Please consider this event as a rite of passage. I am sure that anyone who has used his thumb as a ticket for a ride has at some point encountered this situation. Others have encountered it under different circumstances. I am sure you were offended, but what you have learned is how girls feel when they are accosted by a guy whom they find repulsive. Particularly, when they are somewhat vulnerable from the effects of alcohol or other party substances. Let this be a lesson to all in their interactions with members of the general populace. While you may not find your actions repulsive and uncomfortable, perhaps the recipient of your advances does. As for a member of the same sex expressing their desires towards you, accept them as a compliment. Hold your head high and think about how damned cute you must be for their to approach you. Loneliness is something that all people feel at some point or another. Please be gentle when declining the amorous attentions of other individuals if their intentions are honourable. We all get dumped and turned down some time or another. Remember how it feels. I promise not to post so seriously in the future, I will return to my usual mode of not making sense after this brief public announcement. Alexander (who is still feeling pretty special after the gay guys were fawning all over me when I was buying teddy bears on Saturday, and despite their attempts to interest me in the leather clad butch bears, they never stood a chance, but I was never offended or rude by their actions, just convinced that I was having a really cute day) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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